Professor Kimitaka Nakazawa built a career studying neurological rehabilitation after spinal cord injury. He had long been interested in sports
Month: January 2019
An errant editing enzyme promotes tumor suppressor loss and leukemia propagation
Writing in the January 3 issue of Cancer Cell, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report
A ‘bran’ new way to preserve healthy food with natural ingredients
A natural antioxidant found in grain bran could preserve food longer and replace synthetic antioxidants currently used by the food
Scientists made one step closer to understanding, how redheads inherit their red hair
Redheads are quite rare. Chances are, you would like to disagree, but think on a more global scale – red
New insights into how genes are activated
In a study in Nature, researchers at Karolinska Institutet present a new method for analysing how instructions in the genome control
Surprise discovery reveals second visual system in mouse cerebral cortex
The visual system is probably the best understood part of the brain. Over the past 75 years, neuroscientists have assembled
DNA design that anyone can do
Researchers at MIT and Arizona State University have designed a computer program that allows users to translate any free-form drawing
Bulldogs’ screw tails linked to human genetic disease
With their small size, stubby faces and wide-set eyes, bulldogs, French bulldogs and Boston terriers are among the most popular
Carrying and releasing nanoscale cargo with ‘nanowrappers’
This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) — a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
Experimental treatment shows promise against triple-negative breast cancer
By simultaneously tackling two mechanisms for cancer’s growth, an experimental therapy reduced the spread of triple-negative breast cancer in a
